The secret of what happened doesn't feel so huge anymore for some reason and his shoulders rise and fall as he wraps his hands around the mug of coffee. "There's a reason I stick primarily with healing and protection," he says. "Mark's sister was my first... my only girlfriend and I would have done anything for her. When she found out I was a witch..." He trails off and shrugs again.

"She was a daredevil, she liked doing things that got her into trouble," he explains. "I started calling on darker and darker things for her to see and it was so easy for me to access. Like I was meant to."